What’s on TV Friday: Ben Affleck in ‘The Accountant’ and ‘Love Is Strange’

While we wait for television shows to return from holiday hiatus, let’s check out films that have been added to streaming platforms. “The Accountant,” a quiet thriller starring Ben Affleck, is on iTunes. And Amazon Prime offers “Love Is Strange,” Ira Sachs’s touching portrait of lifelong love.

What’s Streaming

THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) on iTunes. This crime thriller, in which Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an autistic office drone who moonlights as a forensic accountant and launderer for drug cartels, is bizarrely quiet for such an intriguing premise (not to mention an A-list cast that also includes Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons and Jeffrey Tambor). Once we find out about the protagonist’s side gig, “you may anticipate scenes of Christian consorting with international outlaws and leading a glamorous double life,” Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times. “But no — there aren’t any first-class jaunts to exotic foreign capitals, and no scenes of him being wined, dined and entertained by strippers amid piles of cocaine. He is a tormented loner.”

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John Lithgow, left, and Alfred Molina in “Love Is Strange,” a film directed by Ira Sachs.CreditJeong Park/Sony Pictures Classics

LOVE IS STRANGE (2014) on Amazon Prime. Ira Sachs, a treasure among chroniclers of modern gay life in film, directed this touching story of New York real estate and lifelong love. John Lithgow and Alfred Molina star as Ben and George, a longtime couple who are finally able to marry once it is legal — but who find their lives uprooted once George loses his job at a Roman Catholic school over his sexuality. They are forced to give up their comfortable apartment, and what follows is a somewhat mute, yet profound examination of relationships in all their forms. “The impact of the final scenes — tears are highly probable — comes from the curious, cumulative sense of intimacy,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. “By the time the movie is over, you feel as if the people in it were friends you know well enough to tire of, and to miss terribly when they go away.”

THE EIGHTIESon Netflix. CNN’s seven-part documentary series about the 1980s provides a panoramic portrait of the decade, with topics including Ronald Reagan’s two-term presidency, the AIDS crisis and the twilight of the Cold War.

What’s on TV

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006) 5:17 p.m. on Bravo. Anne Hathaway is the hero of this delightful comedy about ambition and power, but her fellow cast members — Meryl Streep as her menacing boss, Stanley Tucci as her protector and Emily Blunt as her co-worker and peer — are the real stars. “Ms. Hathaway, even made over with shiny bangs, flawless makeup and toe-squeezing footwear, is nowhere near as interesting to watch as Mr. Tucci, who has never been better, or Ms. Streep, whose perfectionism has rarely seemed so apt,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. Nor does she hold the screen against Ms. Blunt, Mr. Scott added, “whose portrayal of Emily, Miranda’s senior minion and Andy’s office rival, is a minor tour de force of smiling hostility.”

THE PERFECT STALKER (2016) 8 p.m. on Lifetime. This original movie has all the ingredients of a pulpy Lifetime thriller: histrionics, crime and sexual obsession.